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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
It strikes me that, insofar as healthcare is concerned, there are instantaneous costs and long term costs. The instantaneous cost of lung cancer, for example, might be astronomical but only a fraction of the ordinary total cost, including Medicaid, …
OK, Time to play the SS Game from the American Academy of Actuaries:
http://socialsecuritygame.actuary.org/#make-your-choice-now
(If you feel you need more background on the game, start here instead:
http://www.actuary.org/content/try-your-hand-soc…
That is Japan Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. The body language said it all. Japan has vested interest in containing North Korea and its nuclear ambition.
Thanks, I totally misread it.
I think I draw the line when we ask for "personal responsibility" from our underprivileged 6 year olds. I think it is time for adults to think about providing an enriching environment for the children of this country instead of an ever increasing "y…
This quote from the ProPublica link seems somewhat obvious to me which is why I ceased to understand the "American way" a long time ago. It has something to do with self-reliance but I am not clever enough to appreciate the point. I've invisibly bee…
I talked to Alexa last night about this and she assured me (insisted, in tone) that she only records me when I invite her into the conversation. (She was ready for the question and had a rather long winded explanation of how she functions.) Occasion…
Perhaps we should recognize an entrepreneurial opportunity and start a "Comcast" type bundling of online publications for a single monthly subscription price that goes up up up as the content goes down down down. The masses will get a few classics w…
Growing up in Michigan in the 60s and coming of age in a sense in the early 70s, I recall how good life was for the working stiff. A high school education and good work ethics (showing up regularily and reasonably sober) would net a working couple…
How come no one in corporate America or the government has thought about the US Treasury returning the SS funds (aka the Trust Fund) that the government has absconded with since LBJ needed to find money to support his war in Vietnam.?
SSA - Debunk…
@MikeM - I chose to delay until age 70 but I was born before January 1, 1954 and am married so I could collect 1/2 spousal between age 66 (full retirement age) and age 70. My reason for delaying was to even out my husband's income if I should die an…
@Anna, if you happen to be dealing with TRP target date funds, they offer 2 options, but to me don't explain them well. They have for instance a 2020 "Target Date" fund that does change allocation as you get older. But they also have a "Retirement" …
My Daddy was a smart, but 8th grade educated man. He was actually good at math when he had to do something within his 8th grade education. But, he also deferred to people he thought knew more than he did. The local people at his job told him that he…
Nope, no CD adds. I got high yield savings accounts Internet type banks. Guess I have location tuned off right now. Maybe I'll turn it on and try to get a local CD summary.
On topic - I have my husband's rollover in a Target 2015 and it has gotten …
Around here they always use the same Italian restaurant. I don't like the food at that particular restaurant. Easy decision.
Seriously, if you cannot control your behavior in the presence of sales pushes or dishonesty, you should avoid invites in r…
The more people get their daily sustenance from restaurants, the worse the food becomes. It is at the point where we prefer our own cooking and go out just to get out of the house.
Does limiting the incentive disincentivize collection of the limit? I would think - only if the "limit" resulted in a set kickback that was independent on the source. (Make all sources equally lucrative to the broker.) Otherwise all a limit does is …
Well, maybe not. Maybe this game is to make a "proposal" then "listen" to the real Americans, call new tariffs off, and declare Trump stopped the Obama trade tariffs on the "red" states before they destroyed the American worker.
I need to be taught How To Lose A Lot Of Money In The Stock Market? Let's see, first you start with "a lot of money"....
Yes, Hi, MJG, good to read you.
What I really hate about "he done it too" is that it misses the point that no one, no way should do it. So we argue about the who instead of the what. Sometimes something is wrong no matter who does it. And the bad "what" remains, perhaps gets worse…
No but I'm hoping the market goes down just a bit a lot more before he announces a subsidy of tax dollars/additional tax breaks for any sector that feels affected and the market (with my new investment dollars) goes shooting up again.
I guess I wonder the following - if this is true (is it?) then why aren't we trying to claw back as much "American" wealth as possible from these people without a country?
It just dawned on me that if this was an issue and gerrymandering by anyone was abhorrent to the general population it wouldn't have survived, much less gotten worse. What is a good test of gerrymandering? State houses with majority numbers that ove…
